President Trump said he didn’t watch the video of Charlie Kirk’s shooting in Utah, saying he has steered away from viewing it so he didn’t remember the conservative activist that way.
“I don’t want to watch it,” Trump said on “Fox & Friends.”
He added, “I didn’t want to remember Charlie that way. Yeah, it’s horrific, is what I hear, just horrific.”
The president addressed hearing about the “physical emotion” of witnessing the shooting on the Utah Valley University campus.
Kirk was shot and killed on Wednesday while engaging in debate on gun reform as part of his “American Comeback Tour.”
The graphic videos of the brutal shooting, which occurred in front of a crowd of approximately 3,000 people, surfaced on X, TikTok and Instagram.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) this week put out a public request for TikTok, X and Meta to remove the footage of the murder. She said on Thursday that TikTok has compiled with her request.
“I have just received word from TikTok that they will be removing the horrific videos of Charlie Kirk’s final moments,” she wrote in a statement on the social platform X.
The president also told “Fox & Friends” that he didn’t watch the footage of the stabbing on a train in Charlotte, N.C., when a Ukrainian woman was brutally murdered by suspect, Decarlos Dejuan Brown Jr.
